Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

The work of memory collapses time.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.